Book
Maths Puzzle
Numerical Ability
Pipes and Cistern
a cistern has a leak whick would empty in 8 hours. a tap is turned on, which fill the empty cistern 6 litres a minute. and the cistern is now empetied in 12 hours.the cistern can hold??
Read Solution (Total 1)
-
- 2880 litres
Let the capacity of a tank be x litres.
As leak can empty in 8 hrs, so in 1 hr, it can empty x/8 litres per hour.
Volume filled by tap in 12 hrs =Volume emptied by leak in 12 hrs.
So 12*60*6 = 12*(x/8)
=> x=2880 litres.
12*60*6 = - 7 years agoHelpfull: Yes(0) No(0)
Book Other Question